According to Augustine and many of his successors, all men deserve eternal torture, but God in his infinite mercy saves a very few.
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It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
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